On holiday and in Brighton!

Last week was a bit of a rush as I had to complete both a piece for the Craftspace "Made in the Middle" show but also the piece for Boris Bally's "Imagine" show, as previously mentioned,…

Half fairtrade silver or 9ct yellow gold, half olive wood, these unisex rings have unique detailing inspired by joinery…

The 4th annual World Championship Belt Buckle Competition is a juried online exhibition inviting all one-of-a-kind, handcrafted, wearable examples in the belt buckle format including western, modern, fashion, narrative, and conceptual.  …

New app for ipad Pro: Ever wonder why 3D modeling wasn’t more like sketching? Or sculpting? Why we’re limited to mouse clicks? Here's a new app from Hungary that looks intuitive and easy. I am wondering if I could use this for jewelry, don't see why not.

Has…

Lucy Jenkins "Road Kill Jewelry"

REPOSTED from crafthaus blog, September 26, 2014

Lately, everywhere I look artists seem to have taken on taxidermy. This being artists we are talking about you can be sure that the pieces are not your…

My name is Linda Kaye-Moses and I have been a maker of art jewelry for forty years. You can check out my jewels at lindakayemoses.com. Welcome to my Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, “From Drawings to Jewelry”. There is just a single goal for this campaign, a goal to raise $8,000.00, but more about that below. Read on to find out, and to discover how…

This last week has been taken up by exploring a fairly new material with the pleasingly forthright Ronda Coryell, a delightful Amercian woman who is an expert in the use…

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Marilyn Druin - extraordinary color, composition, and design

“Some artists are social commentators.

They interpret and comment upon life....

I try to take some of earth's essential elements and create my own world with order and harmony where my mind can be at peace."

- Marilyn Druin, 1999

Sadly, Druin passed away in November 2001 - around two…

The Doti Loom.

BY Andrew Salomone — Jul 15 2016

What if, instead of going shopping for new clothes, you can just…

As Britain crashes into economic disaster and global irrelevance and we swing ever-more towards a state of fascism, I've been burying my head in the sand and thinking about rather less grim things, like working on my piece for Boris Bally's show, about which I wrote a week or so back.



This week was also fairly tough in that we had been…

Hello again everyone,

Just an update on how the Year of the Harlan is progressing.  For anyone out there that ordered their Harlan Activity Book from Blurb, THANK YOU! If you have completed any of the pages, please post here (or email me if you'd like me to post--I've included a page I just…

While it is absolutely not the case that everyone who voted to leave the EU is a racist - far from it, I would think - the language of the 'campaign' to leave certainly was racist. Who can forget Farage's appalling poster which shows Syrian refugees leaving their country:…